Bug#1150221: network-manager: obsolete /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf breaks D-Bus access for system users

[Michael Biebl]

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On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:32:28 +0200 =?utf-8?b?SsOpcsOpbXkgTGFs?= <kapo...@melix.org> wrote:

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.58.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #1150221

Further info:

dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' network-manager
 /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 914f22205f2ed4d4bc84f3682ecd3153
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf 89375becd43963c9203c92820c86a35a 
obsolete

This file has been moved to /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf in

network-manager (1.14.4-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Move D-Bus policy files to /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/
  * Remove obsolete D-Bus policy conffiles on upgrades

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/677cd79028d990e76cd3b9505c4a4b59b934dbf6

and maintscript code to remove the obsolete conffile on upgrades

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/179df1a8ab7df0663d8178883373c31b59cfbf06

This was in 2018. The maintscript code was removed again 3 years later in

https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/cf3cea148037f9c5ce930a6d44a48be0413427cb

So, my only guess is, that you skipped a release when upgrading and never actually ran the upgrade code.

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